Word: supportable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Holy See, by a succession of utterances by the sovereign Pontiffs since 1870, has never waived its demand for temporal independence and Catholics all over the world support that demand...
After a meeting in support of M. Raoul Sabatir, Nationalist (Millerand- Poincaré Party) candidate in the Municipal elections, a number of young Nationalists walked into a Communist guet-apens (ambush). Many shots rang out, three Nationalists fell dead, eight others were wounded, two mortally. The Nationalists were unarmed...
...Upon my arrival in Tokyo . . . I am determined to give my support to all labor disputes and other events which may develop. In discharging my duties as Ambassador of the Soviet Government, I will put into execution the resolution of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee that Japan is regarded merely as a medium for Russia to make a rapprochement with America...
...Uniform Conditional Sales Act, the Uniform Warehouse Receipt Act, the Uniform Bills of Lading Act, and the Uniform Negotiable Instruments Act. After stating that the Uniform Stock Transfer Act was "perhaps still excusable," Mr. Hemphill added: "But then came the Uniform Partnership, Acknowledgments, Aeronautics, Desertion and Non-Support Acts -and then a real fever, a mad desire to make everything uniform.* There followed a wholesale production of nonsense, and the plant is still in 100% operation. . . . Mr. Madison's ideas of the rights of the States are still worth fighting for; it is not yet futile to contend against...
...fear that the sentimental reaction that most hunger strikes engender among hoi polloi will harm their party were they to let Miss MacSwiney carry out her harmless threat. Unquestionably the public watches with awe and apprehension the lengthening days of the hunger strike, lending the victims a gradually increasing support of maudlin sympathy. Since the days of Pre-war Suffragettes in England, the hunger strike has become the last resort of persons who could not attain their ends by any other method...